Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 85 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making
Vanuatu 1.18% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(3.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Vanuatu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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